A Former Terrorist’s Cultural Poison

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania—On March 19, former Weather Underground Organization (WUO) co-founder William Charles “Bill” Ayersappeared at The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University – Penn State Law to discuss the subject of “school discipline.” The highly controversial figure, who was an intellectual guru to a young Barack Hussein Obama, delivered his talk amid the presence of three campus police officers, reporters from a local television station, state senators voicing their disapproval, a week-long series of “letters to the editor” to local newspapers and a standing-room-only crowd.

Outside the auditorium prior to Ayers’s arrival,this reporter overheard one student whispering toanother, “I read online that Ayers used to be a domesticterrorist.”

Indeed, within the span of two years, Ayers’s WUObombed New York City police headquarters, the United StatesCapitol Building and the Pentagon. In fact, WUO claimed responsibility for at least 25 separate bombingincidents. Their most sickening plot involved thetargeting of a dance hall at New Jersey’s Fort DixArmy base. Intent on murdering unsuspecting youngmen and women gathered at this facility, instead thenail bomb these saboteurs concocted in a GreenwichVillage townhouse exploded before being delivered,killing three WUO members.

Once seated inside the lecture hall, this reporterspoke with Penn State student JeffreyMasko about the controversy surroundingAyers.

Masko replied: “I don’tfind him very controversial atall, but then my politics are prettyfar left as a member of the ProgressiveStudent Coalition.” Healso addressed free speech.

“Eleven students from the lawschool tried to prevent Ayers fromspeaking,” he said, “but dialogue is good. Shuttingdown conversations is ridiculous.”

The American Civil Liberties Union’s Mathieu Brener agreed. He told AMERICAN FREE PRESS: “I’m a huge proponent of the First Amendment. Even if someone from the far right was speaking tonight, we would welcome an open debate rather than totally exclude discussion.”

Student leader Rafael Alvaredo said to this reporter, “I’mhappy about the publicity because it’s drawn an audienceto this event that may otherwise not haveknown about it.”

Following his introduction, Ayers hypocriticallyinformed the crowd, “We can’t filter everything wedo through ideology or dogma.” Apparently notgrasping the profound sense of irony in this statement,every violent act that either maimed or killedpeople committed by Ayers’s WUO in the 1970s wasfiltered through the prism of their radical ideology.

Ayers next complained that slavery was alive andwell in America today via our prison systems. However,he conveniently failed to follow up with statistics,which undeniably prove that blacks commit avastly disproportionate percentage of all murders,rapes and assaults in this country.

To the contrary, Ayers declared, “I’m a prison abolitionist.”But it’s highly doubtful, though, that he’dretain this viewpoint if violentblack gangs stormed his gatedcommunity and raped his wife.

Opposed to the increasedpolicing inside our schools,Ayers again refused to cite therise of aggravated assaults perpetratedby urban studentsagainst teachers. In manyof these classrooms, the situationmore closely resemblesarmed combat than education.

Other than bleeding heart liberals like Ayers, whoact as apologists for criminal behavior, most parentswelcome a safe environment, if for no other reasonthan to protect their innocent sons and daughtersfrom being brutalized at the hands of gangsters.

Next Ayers suggested, “We need to see the humanityof students that walk through school doors.” Couldhe possibly be referring to the “humanity” of someonelike 18-year-old Michael Brown? Only days after graduatingfrom high school, Brown attempted to murderpolice officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.

Ayers also recommended the need for more artand poetry in schools, especially those in innercities. Yet instead of pushing the responsibility of civilizingthese hooligans onto parents and black communities,Ayers neglected to offer any solutions tothe problem. The truth is, little humanity exists in today’s ghettoswhere black kids are already destroyedby broken families, poverty, violence anddrugs before they ever reach school.

In this setting, black youths are poisoned by violenthip-hop lyrics, crime, drugs and the so-called“thug life,” which is presented as preferable to hardwork that is viewed as selling-out to whitey.

Today, schools serve as the only environment inwhich urban black teens can receive any discipline.Orderliness acts as a benefit to their lives, not a detriment,as Ayers claims. Sadly, once the recess bellrings, these kids return to an urban jungle of Ebonics,drive-by shootings, sexual assaults, welfare dependencyand homes where no father is present.

Ayers’s hometown of Chicago stands as America’smurder capital. As an alternative to blaming racism,prejudice and social injustice, as he did at Penn State Law,Ayers should focus on cleaning up his own festeringbackyard in Chicago.

Short of taking these meaningful steps, Ayers representsnothing more than typical Frankfurt School-style,cultural-communist propaganda where themajority of law-abiding citizens and students are endangeredby those like Ayers who perpetually side with villains.

It should also be noted that a then-unknown Barack Obama staged his first political fundraiser inAyers’s living room. As a member of the socialist-orientedNew Party, Ayers described his relationship with Obama: “[W]e were friendly; that was true; weserved on a couple of boards together, that was true; he held a fundraiser in our living room, that wastrue; Michelle [Obama] and Bernardine [Ayers’s wife] were at a law firm together, that was true.”

Victor Thorn is a hard-hitting researcher, journalist and author of over 50 books.

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